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Video Relay Service scam by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness A public service meant to help the hearing disabled has been exploited for “tens of millions of dollars,” according to the FCC. Arrests were made across the US thi ... Read on »

Abnormally Funny People by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Abnormally Funny People’s monthly comedy show returns to Soho Theatre on Friday 13th November, and it will be palantyped – making live comedy accessible to deaf an ... Read on »

Cochlear implant update by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Eeenie-meeenie-meinie-mo.Which way shall my hearing go?Left ear, right ear, brain in the middle.Pick one, stick one, let the surgeon fiddle.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I am *allowed* to b ... Read on »

Sounds – imagined and real by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness This story illustrates the nightmare of tinnitus and noise sensitivity known as The Hum. Article after the jump with some interesting comments.I find my best coping tactics wi ... Read on »

Benefits Green Paper by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness The recent Government Green Paper on Care Services in the UK is still causing concern to many people who are worried that this will mean the end of their entitlement to Disabi ... Read on »

Alleviate your tinnitus by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness My tinnitus has been particularly bad for the last 2 years and it’s horrible. It’s as if I’m listening to a constant concert with a crap conductor. My audiol ... Read on »

Get your YouTube videos captioned by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Speakuplibrarian got there before I did I spotted this cool site Captvids.com which captions YouTube videos at Speakuplibrarian has written about this site and posted a funny ... Read on »

Telecoms and Convergent Media Event by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness The next in UCL Advances series of Technology Innovation Forum events will cover telecoms and convergent media and will take place on 12 November 2009 in central London.How wi ... Read on »

To spin or not to spin … by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Spinvox have developed a system which, among other products, offers a speech to text voicemail service which is ideal for deaf people who want to be able to use voicemail, suc ... Read on »

Emergency SMS 999 by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I’ve always felt hard done by when thinking about my safety. Being unable to hear on the phone, I would hate to be put in a position where I needed to call the police qu ... Read on »

Top 100 blogs award by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Top 100 BlogsI’ve been awarded this badge from The Daily Reviewer. Thank you! I’m honoured.Check out the site, as there are some REALLY interesting blogs there suc ... Read on »

Save DLA and AA – the first crucial task by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness This post is an email sent from Benefits and Work Publishing Ltd.Persuading disability charities to speak out against the threat to disability benefits is absolutely crucial. ... Read on »

Room 101 by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I arrived at the Royal Free hospital in north London and made my way to the MRI department. There, the nurse took out a sheet of paper and mumbled while looking at the floor. ... Read on »

Vote for subtitled cinema! by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Subtitled cinema – we need your vote – again!Thanks to thousands of votes, the ‘Your Local Cinema.com’ information service has made it through to the f ... Read on »

No More Benefits Cut campaign update by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Emailed to me today:Many thanks for joining the No More Benefits Cuts campaign.We had an astonishing 5,245 people sign up in the first 24 hours of the campaign. I confess thi ... Read on »

100 days to save DLA & AA from the axe by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Claimants have just 100 days to prevent their DLA ( Disability Living Allowance ) and AA ( Attendance Allowance ) being abolished.A government green paper has revealed proposa ... Read on »

Let’s get borgerised! by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I’ve never been keen on the idea of joining the cyborg crowd. A friend told me of her experience and this got me considering the idea more seriously. Martine was about ... Read on »

Multi-lingual lip reading computers by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness New lip-reading computers can ‘speak’ everything from English and Arabic to Cantonese and Italian.The technology, developed by scientists at the University of East ... Read on »

Ask your MP to sign EDM on deaf telecoms by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness MPS sign Early Day Motion about modernising deaf telecomsTAG urges deaf people to ask their MPs to sign the motionDeaf people and those wishing to telephone them are being urg ... Read on »

Lost for words by Funny Old Life Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I love watching movies as it’s a great way to relax without the stress of communicating with hearing people or trying to follow something that isn’t accessible. I ... Read on »

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